EYE JS: A client-side reasoning engine supporting Notation3 and RDF Surfaces

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Jesse Wright, Jos De Roo, Ieben Smessaert

Published: 03 Sept 2024, Last Modified: 30 Sept 2024The 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, November 11–15, 2024, Hanover, MDEveryoneCC BY 4.0
Abstract: The Web is transitioning away from centralised services to a re-emergent decentralised platform. This movement generates demand for infrastructure that hides the complexities of decentralisation so that Web developers can easily create rich applications for the next generation of the internet. This paper introduces EYE JS, an RDFJS-compliant TypeScript library that supports reasoning using Notation3 and RDF Surfaces from browsers and NodeJS. By developing EYE JS, we fill a gap in existing research and infrastructure, creating a reasoning engine for the Resource Description Framework (RDF) that can reason over decentralised documents in a Web client.